Rational-legal authority
FORM OF LEADERSHIP IN WHICH THE AUTHORITY OF AN ORGANIZATION OR A RULING REGIME IS LARGELY TIED TO LEGAL RATIONALITY, LEGAL LEGITIMACY AND BUREAUCRACY
Legal domination; Legal-rational authority; Rational authority; Rational-legal; Legal rationality; Rationalistic authority; Rational–legal authority; Legitimate domination; Socioeconomic order
Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy. The majority of the modern states of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are rational-legal authorities, according to those who use this form of classification.